diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr b/ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..10d2151606f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Portupgrade is a tool to upgrade installed packages with ports. + +It upgrades ports without reinstalling dependent packages by directly +modifying the package info recorded in the files under /var/db/pkg. + +The procedures it takes is shown as follows: + + 1. Build the corresponding port of the given package + + 2. Fix the dependency info of the ones which depends on the given + package + + 3. Save the +REQUIRED_BY list of the given package + + 4. Uninstall the given package forcibly if -u is specified + + 5. Install the port + + 6. Restore the +REQUIRED_BY list + +The usage can be shown by running it without arguments or with a -h. + +Author: Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org> |